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Go Tell It On The Mountain Rhetorical Devices

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James Baldwin, in his novel Go Tell it on the Mountain, illuminates the perception of a father through his son’s eyes, allowing readers to wonder how this conversation between Roy and his mother, Elizabeth, will affect his brother, John, due to circumstances that will happen in the future. Baldwin successfully uses his unique style of diction to create both a sarcastic and comedic tone which allows the readers to know that Roy really is not fond of the idea of having Gabriel as his father. Roy’s mother, Elizabeth, constantly uses repetition to stress the idea of how lucky the boys are to have Gabriel as their father, but Roy successfully pleads his case by saying what his mother says but allowing it to mean just the opposite. “We don’t know
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